I'm keeping my last name because I never viewed it as on lease, as something to give up as soon as I wed. If my fiancé and I are starting a new life together, it’s important to set the tone.

But I’m making one for myself, in the hope of taking an identity that empowers me as a woman. One that celebrates my heritage. And one that has nothing to do with typical surname-wielding men.

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But my mother’s surname is her father’s. My mother’s mother’s surname is Ding. I’ll take my grandmother’s maiden name then. But why stop there? Why not go all the way up the family tree? Because I don ...

“I’m the one that’s laughing,” he said of dealing with haters. “I did it for the reactions.” Businesses even ask him to autograph fire exit signs.

I'm now in a weird situation where I'm not going to speak up because I'm named Karen, and I don't want to be anything like the "Karen" who is going to speak up about anything that could be wrong.